Debugging tools

Telepathy Debugger

The plan is to develop libTpDebuggerQt — a backend for Telepathy debug messages monitor based on spec. The lib can base on KTp Debugger

What is wrong with KTp Debugger?

• It does not detect services "on the fly"
• It shows only connected CMs
• It hardcodes mission control
• It shows the same service as many times, as the service registered on the bus
• It doesn't have QML UI
• It mixes logic and widget
• It looks like a part of KTp, but actually it does not depend on KTp

Subtasks

1. Extract logic from the (widget-based) UI
2. Reimplement service detection, so the debugger would be able to monitor all processes with exposed Debug interface
3. Implement a widget-based GUI for desktop
4. Reimplement KTp Debugger on top of the new classes
5. Add a message model for QML
6. Implement a QQC2-based UI for mobile devices
7. Implement a Silica-based UI for Sailfish OS

Frontends

• Pure Qt
• KTP Debugger (ported to this lib)
• QML-based debugger for Plasma Mobile
• QML-based debugger for Sailfish OS

C++/Qt-based replacement for DBus debugger (Bustle)

What is Bustle

https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2008/11/13/bustle-a-d-bus-activity-charting-tool/

https://willthompson.co.uk/bustle/0.4.0-video.webm

QDBusMonitor (the replacement project)

Repository: qdbusmonitor

Status: initial development